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Joseph Watson (ed.) Todd Sturtevant Virginia Faust
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Thursday Morning
Dear Mrs Bartlett,
My wife & I are
highly flattered by
the persevering kindness
which sends us this
brave invitation to your
house, next Friday
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and though I have
no hope that we
shall be able to go
to town that night,
yet I mean to avail
myself of the liberty
this card gives me
of re-claiming
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the right to come
& see you, which, I
feared, my multiplied
omissions had forfeited.
May best stars light
the brilliant occasion!
Your obliged faithful servant,
R. W. Emerson